Photos: Eid al-Adha, protests and sunsets amid COVID-19

July 30, 2020 at 1:04 pm Updated July 30, 2020 at 1:04 pm

Muslims pray on top of the rocky hill known as Mountain of Mercy on the Plain of Arafat during the annual hajj pilgrimage near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Only about 1,000 pilgrims will be allowed to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Ministry of Media / The Associated Press)

Children wash sheep with soap before the sheep are offered for sale for the upcoming Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, on the beach in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Even in the best of times, many Muslims in West Africa scramble to afford a sheep to slaughter on the Eid al-Adha holiday, a display of faith that often costs as much as a month’s income. Now the coronavirus is wreaking havoc on people’s budgets putting an important religious tradition beyond financial reach. (Sylvain Cherkaoui / The Associated Press)

Yamil Peralta lifts a weight made of cement in the backyard of his home in Jose C. Paz, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Amid the lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, the Olympian and professional boxer found a job at a trash company to make ends meet and adapted his home to continue training in hopes of qualifying for Argentina’s 2021 Olympic team. (Marcos Brindicci / Associated Press)

People watch the sunset next to the Trafalgar Lighthouse in Los Caños de Meca, in the town of Barbate in Spain’s Cadiz province on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Temperatures are forecast to hit 40 degrees Celsius amid a heatwave starting Thursday. (Emilio Morenatti / AP)

Veterans of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against Nazi Germany are seeking protection from the sun under umbrellas as they attend state ceremonies marking 76 years since the revolt, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Czarek Sokolowski / The Associated Press)

A medical worker tests someone for COVID-19 at the new coronavirus test station on the A8 motorway between Salzburg and Munich near Bergen, Germany, Thursday. (Matthias Schrader / AP)

People riding the subway wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday. (Chiang Ying-ying / The Associated Press)

A worker dismantles a fair attraction in Brussels, Thursday. Local authorities canceled the popular summer Midi Fair after Belgium’s government announced a new set of drastic social distancing measures aimed at avoiding a new general lockdown amid a surge of COVID-19 infections. (Francisco Seco / The Associated Press)

A man sunbathes at a park in Hong Kong Thursday. As of Wednesday, Hong Kong reported over 3,000 coronavirus infections, with dozens of deaths. Businesses such as bars, karaoke bars and amusement parks remain temporarily closed. (Vincent Yu / The Associated Press)

Health personnel collect samples from Nepalese people who have traveled outside the Kathmandu valley for COVID-19 tests in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday. (Niranjan Shrestha / The Associated Press)

Thousands of Belarusians attended a rally in support of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, candidate for the presidential elections in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday. Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said she would not cancel any campaign rallies because of stricter lockdowns. The presidential election in Belarus is scheduled for August 9, 2020. (Sergei Grits / The Associated Press)

Victoria Melgar, 92, gets a flu shot in the El Agustino neighborhood of Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 30, 2020. In the middle of winter, medical personnel visited one of the capital’s poorest neighborhoods to vaccinate against influenza. (Martin Mejia / The Associated Press)

A woman walks past a row of T-shirts printed with Vietnamese flags in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday. For 99 days, Vietnam seemed to have defeated the coronavirus, but now a new outbreak has grown to more than 40 cases in six cities and authorities are beginning to reimpose broader restrictions. (Hau Dinh / The Associated Press)

A woman wearing a face mask reads a book as she rides a subway car in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Moscow authorities require residents to wear masks on public transportation, in stores and other confined public spaces. (Alexander Zemlianichenko / The Associated Press)

Government employees wearing face shields and protective face masks help people process requests for early withdrawals of a percentage of their pensions, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, July 30, 2020. The measure was approved last week by lawmakers to help alleviate the economic crisis brought on by the new coronavirus pandemic. (Esteban Felix / The Associated Press)

Kashmiri shopkeepers attend to customers ahead of Eid al-Adha in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Businesses opened in the Indian portion of Kashmir after the government decided to ease the lockdown, but the usual rush of shoppers ahead of Eid was missing amid the fear of COVID-19. (Dar Yasin / The Associated Press)

A woman wearing carries an offering to deities on her head during a parade in Bali, Indonesia on Thursday, July 30, 2020. Indonesia’s island of Bali will reopen for domestic tourists on Friday after months of lockdown due to the coronavirus. (Firdia Lisnawati / The Associated Press)

On the eve of the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha, a municipality worker sprays disinfectant in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, backdropped by the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, recently converted back to a mosque, Thursday, July 30, 2020. This is the first Feast of Sacrifice since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The major Muslim holiday, at the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, is observed around the world and commemorates prophet Abraham’s pledge to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God. (Omer Kuscu / The Associated Press)

Jennifer Degroff, owner of the Tipsy Rose Bar and Catering Services, protests in support of the live-events industry receiving federal aid outside of the office of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., during the coronavirus pandemic, Thursday in Miami. Many small businesses in the events industry have been shut down since March due to the pandemic. (Lynne Sladky / The Associated Press)

Masked shoppers are reflected in the windows of Fuzzybutz Pet Bakery, in downtown St. Joseph, Mich., Thursday, July 30, 2020. Area businesses are requiring visitors to wear face masks when entering stores due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Don Campbell / The Associated Press)

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